Bottle



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O. V. BLAZIER.

, BOTTLE.

No. 603,019. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

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OSCAR V. BLAZIER, OF GILLETTE, NEIV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOWILLIAM A. WOODRUFF, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,019, dated April26, 1898.

Application filed February 15, 1897. Serial No. 623,370. (No model.)

To ail whom it near/y concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR V. BLAZIER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Gillette, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey,have invented an Improvement in Bottles, of which the following is aspecification.

Bottles are manufactured extensively of peculiar sizes or shapes, andnames are often made on the glass, and bottles of this character areemployed for holding fluids, especially proprietary medicines andliquids of general consumption, and in many instances these bottles aregathered up and employed by unscrupulous persons who refill them with aliquid approximating the original and sell them as of the original make,thus defrauding the parties originally using the bottles and frequentlyplacing an inferior article upon the market. 7

Numerous appliances have been made seeking to prevent the refilling ofthe bottle; but these are often costly and inefficient in preventing thesurreptitious use of such bottles.

The object of the present invention is to make it to the advantage ofthe purchaser or user of the contents of the bottle to break the glassof the bottle, and thus destroy its utility and prevent the same beingrefilled; and with this object in view I insert into the glass of thebottle a coupon-holder that cannot be detached except by breaking theglass, and within this holder there is a coupon representin g a moneyvalue payable by the original filler of the bottle, so that uponforwarding such coupons, pursuant to the directions on the bottle, theparty will be entitled to a money consideration.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a bottle partially in section, andFig. 2 shows the parts of the coupon-holder and a coupon separated.

It is to be understood that the bottle A is to be of any desired size orcharacter, and usually it will be what is termed a proprietary bottlehaving the name of the user or other marks and numbers referring to thecontents of the bottle, and as these bottles are usually labeled it isadvantageous to introduce upon such labels statements or directionsconcerning the coupon, the value of the same, and the party to whomcoupons are to be forwarded.

The coupon-holder Bis to be made of a size and shape adapted to receivethe coupon 2. This is advantageously of metal and may be stamped with anumber, name, or other device indicative of origin and adaptedto preventfraudulent reproduction, and this coupon is received into the holder andplaced in the mold employed for receiving the glass of which the bottleis composed, so that in blowing or molding the bottle the coupon-holderis sufficiently surrounded upon its edges to preventthe same beingseparated from the bottle without breaking the glass.

I find it convenient to make the holder of two parts, with bevelededges, so that the holder may be dropped into the mold with the couponin it, and the glass at the bottom of the bottle will be forced aroundthe edges of the coupon-holder. I have shown one part of thecoupon-holder as formed With a central circular projection receiving ashort tubular cap 4, the coupon 2 being introduced between the parts 3and 4: before they are closed together.

I do not confine myself to any particular size or shape ofcoupon-holder, as the same may vary according to the character of thecoupon and to the bottle with which the same is to be applied.

I claim as my invention- The coupon-holder having beveled edges and acentral circular projection and a tubular cap fitting such projection,and a coupon held between the parts,and the holder secured in the bottleby the glass around the beveled edges, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 16th day of January, 1897.

OSCAR V. BLAZIER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. RATHBUN, M. W. METTLER.

